General Native Vegetation Profile:
Four Corners
Level to Depressed Plains | Prior Streams, Lunettes and Sand Ridges | Level to Depressed Plains |
LANDFORM | Level to Depressed Plains | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Boree Woodland. | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Low woodland to low open woodland dominated by Boree with a mainly herbaceous understorey. Alluvial, grey and brown clays, or sometimes on red-brown earths. |
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LOCATION EXAMPLE | Oolambeyan National Park. | |
TREES >8M | Callitris glaucophylla | White Cypress Pine |
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Acacia oswaldii | Miljee |
A. pendula | Boree | |
Atriplex nummularia | Old man Saltbush | |
Chenopodium nitrariaceum | Nitre Goosefoot | |
Eremophila longifolia | Emubush | |
Senna artemisioides subsp. circinnata | Spring pod Cassia | |
LOW SHRUBS <2m |
Atriplex leptocarpa | Slender-fruited Saltbush |
Enchylaena tomentosa | Ruby Saltbush | |
Maireana aphylla | Cottonbush | |
M. decalvans | Black Cottonbush | |
Rhagodia spinescens | Thorny Saltbush | |
Sclerolaena birchii | Galvanised Bassia | |
S. muricata | Five spined Bassia | |
GROUND COVERS | Atriplex semibaccata | Creeping Saltbush |
Calocephalus sonderi | Pale Beauty-heads | |
Calotis scabiosifolia | Rough Burr-daisy | |
Chloris truncata | Windmill Grass | |
Convolvulus erubescens | Australian Bindweed | |
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
Enteropogon acicularis | Curly Windmill Grass | |
Maireana ciliata | Hairy Fissure weed | |
M. enchylaenoides | Wingless Fissure-weed | |
Ptilotus erubescens | Hairy tails | |
Rhodanthe corymbiflora | Grey Sunray | |
Sida corrugata | Corrugated Sida | |
Solanum esuriale | Quena | |
Sporobolus caroli | Fairy Grass | |
Swainsona procumbens | Broughton Pea | |
Vittadinia cuneata | Fuzzweed |
LANDFORM | Prior Streams, Lunettes and Sand Ridges | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Callitris Mixed Woodland (Prior Streams / Lunettes). | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Low woodland to woodland of prior streams, source bordering dunes or lunettes dominated by White Cypress Pine and shrubs scattered over a grassy understorey. Alluvial or aeolian, well-drained sandy-loams and loams. |
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LOCATION EXAMPLE | Oolambeyan National Park, Boorooban State Forest, Steam Plains State Forest, Edgar State Forest. | |
TREES >8M | Acacia homalophylla | Yarran |
Allocasuarina luehmannii | Bulloak | |
Callitris glaucophylla | White Cypress Pine | |
Geijera parviflora | Wilga | |
Hakea tephrosperma | Hooked Needlewood | |
Myoporum platycarpum | Sugarwood | |
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Acacia oswaldii | Miljee |
A. salicina | Cooba | |
Alectryon oleifolius subsp. canescens | Rosewood | |
Atriplex nummularia | Old man Saltbush | |
Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa | Native Blackthorn | |
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima | Narrow leaf Hopbush | |
Eremophila longifolia | Emubush | |
Pittosporum phylliraeoides | Butterbush | |
Santalum acuminatum | Quandong | |
S. lanceolatum | Sandalwood | |
LOW SHRUBS <2m |
Atriplex leptocarpa | Slender-fruited Saltbush |
A. pseudocampanulata | Mealy Saltbush | |
Callistemon brachyandrus | Prickly Bottlebrush | |
Enchylaena tomentosa | Ruby Saltbush | |
Olearia pimeleoides | Showy Daisy-bush | |
Rhagodia spinescens | Thorny Saltbush | |
Sclerolaena diacantha | Grey Copperburr | |
S. muricata | Five spined Bassia | |
GROUND COVERS | Actinobole uliginosum | Flannel Cudweed |
Rytidosperma caespitosa | White top | |
Austrostipa scabra subsp. falcata | Rough Speargrass | |
Boerhavia dominii | Tar Vine | |
Calotis cuneifolia | Purple Burr-daisy | |
Dysphania melanocarpa | Black Crumbweed | |
Dactyloctenium radulans | Button Grass | |
Dissocarpus biflorus var. biflorus | Twin-horned Copperburr | |
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
Enteropogon acicularis | Curly Windmill Grass | |
Eragrostis lacunaria | Purple Lovegrass | |
Geranium solanderi | Australian Cranesbill | |
Maireana enchylaenoides | Wingless Fissure-weed | |
Sida corrugata | Corrugated Sida |
LANDFORM | Level to Depressed Plains | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Bladder Saltbush Chenopod Shrubland. | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Low shrubland to low open shrubland dominated by Bladder Saltbush and other chenopods. Alluvial, grey, self-mulching and cracking clays to red duplex soils with grey and brown clays, sometimes saline. |
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LOCATION EXAMPLE | Cobb Highway north of Wanganella, Cobb Highway between Boorooban and Hay. | |
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Atriplex nummularia | Old man Saltbush |
LOW SHRUBS <2m |
Atriplex leptocarpa | Slender-fruited Saltbush |
A. pseudocampanulata | Mealy Saltbush | |
A. vesicaria | Bladder Saltbush | |
Maireana aphylla | Cottonbush | |
M. decalvans | Black Cottonbush | |
Malacocera tricornis | Soft-horns | |
Nitraria billardierei | Dillon Bush | |
Rhagodia spinescens | Thorny Saltbush | |
Sclerolaena muricata | Five spined Bassia | |
S. stelligera | Star Copperburr | |
S. tricuspis | Streaked Poverty-bush | |
Tecticornia tenuis | Slender Glasswort | |
GROUND COVERS | Atriplex semibaccata | Creeping Saltbush |
Rytidosperma caespitosa | White top | |
Calocephalus sonderi | Pale Beauty-heads | |
Calotis scabiosifolia | Rough Burr-daisy | |
Chloris truncata | Windmill Grass | |
Convolvulus erubescens | Australian Bindweed | |
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
Eragrostis australasica | Canegrass | |
Goodenia fascicularis | Silky Goodenia | |
Leiocarpa tomentosa | Woolly Plover daisy | |
Maireana pentagona | Slender Fissure-weed | |
Minuria cunninghamii | Bush Minuria | |
Sclerolaena brachyptera | Short-winged Copperburr | |
Sida ammophila | Sand Sida | |
S. trichopoda | High Sida | |
Solanum esuriale | Quena | |
Sporobolus caroli | Fairy Grass | |
Vittadinia cuneata | Fuzzweed |